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Originally Posted by apalrd
A ball shifter design can do any number of speeds just by adding more gear pairs to the shafts, so it's possible to do a 3-speed instead of a 4-speed, but it's much harder to manufacture than the dual 2-speed with andymark parts or dual 2-speed mesh shifter design (or even the dual 2-speed ball shifter).
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For reference, 222 has been running a 3-speed ball shifter since 2004.
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